Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-27
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The Belle OF Sierra.
ELLEN CALLEHAN Runs Two RANCHES
ANDIs SURE SHOT.

"We've got girl up in our country "
said James Farwell of Sierra Valley, yes
terday. at the Grand Hotel, to an Exam
iner reporter, ''that discounts the world.
Amt another like her anywhere. Make a
good catch, too, for some fellow, only he
should have plenty of hustle to him or
else he'd get laid out She's a ripper
Runs two ranches and makes barrel of
money.
"Ysu see, she's girl who is alone in
the world. Two or three years ago her
only relative. brother, died, and eonse-
quently she had to run the property. She
is Miss Ellen Callehan Everybody
throughout the Sierra Valley knows her.
She can yoke up the steers and plow as
much in day as anybody. She can build
fences, pitch hay. or take her place with a
crew of men at a threshing machine and
keep even with any of them. As tor rid
ing refractory mountain horses, she is a
regular vanquero. 1t takes a very supple
and long jointed nag to get her off, now
| tell you. He'd need to be fabricated
with the best material a-going to do it.
miss Callehan has gone into the cattle
business good deal lately. 1t Is only q
few days ago since she sold forty-six
beeves in one lot to James Miller tor 3d.
1928. And, il you think she amt shrewd
on trade, all have to say is, she got
1-2 cents for them, which is the highest
price paid in the Sierra Valley for several
years.
She wouldn't take paper money-noth-
ing but gold-and she carried it all home
with her, and slowed it away in her cabin.
Sha hos a hOly horror IF bapkc apd think "a
they do little else but swindle. Now.
some people might think this girl would
be good game for robbers. but she
wouldn't. | have an idea it would be a
sorry time for the man who got to poking
his nose about her place. She can shoot,
and she does it, too, whenever the occa-
sion requires.
mo never heard that she ever shot a
man. but she is as handy as any frontiers
man on the game that comes around
there.
''Is she prettyp Not from the city stand
point, hardly, presume. Fact is the
girls got too much to do. But she is not
over %, weighs 1870 and is dashing and
real attractive. If she gave her time and
attention to frills and furbelows instead of
bulls and beef, I'm free to say | think
she would eclipse many of the daz-
zlers who listen every night to the
music OF the National Opera Company
The girls environment has had much to
do with the formation of her habits, the
same as it has with all persons. But
Miss Callehan is ambitious. She says she
is soon going to have piano and an ex-
tensive library, and as soon as she turns
off her other lot of beef cattle, which will
be early in the fall she is going to take
life easier. My word for it, Miss Callehan
has the real stuff in her. and we'll hear
from her further and to greater advan-
tage before long.
Some OF the young ranchmen in the
vicinity there have shown an inclination
to win the young woman's hand. But
she hasn't encouraged them much. She
SAYS most of them are of no account.
81 suppose Miss Callehan is about the
best judge of live stock on the Pacific
coast. She is 10 the Pacific coast what
Middle Morgan is to the Atlantic. You
know Miss Morgan made such reputa.
ton as judge of hoofed cattle and horses
in the east that the New York World
wanted her, and now she does the fine
stock department exclusively for that
paper, the World paying her such salary
that she writes for no other paper what
ever.
AT guessing at the weight of a steer,
or in giving an opinion of the points of a
horse or COW, Miss Callehan is acknowl-
edged to be the queen of that country
San Francisco Examiner.